Hypsiclea torquata May 17 AOR on Cowal Hollow Rd between Rains & Site 300 (A.E.C.), San Joaquin Co., Calif. - Gene Hippmann # 7 Total length 14 1/2 inches, tail 1 3/4 inches. General dorsal color light brown, becoming lighter laterally, this emph- sized by the fact that the 3 or 4 lowermost rows of scales are white edged. Head slightly darker than body, minute speckled with blackish, and a grayish area on the anterior third of the parietals and the frontal, labials white, the upper parts more or less dotted with brown, especially anteriorly, chin and throat brownish white; the following pattern of darker brown on the head and nape; a narrow line along the rostral sulcus continuing on the chin to the 7th supralabial along the chin shields and as illustrated: The larger nuchal spots are 4 scales wide and 6 scales long, it begin on the [illegible] fourth row on each side. Dorsal pattern of 60 body and 17 tail blocks of brown, becoming darker anteriorly, 75 scales wide and 2 long, separated by 1 1/2 to 2 scale at midbody; many of them split and alternating along the vertebral line; a series of smaller spots 3 or 4 scales in size alternating with the dorsal on scale rows 5 to 7, and another smaller series on rows 2 to 4 below the middorsal spots. Ventrally bluish white, bluer centrally, unpattered, but irridescent (pinkish). *iris ground color, pupil vertically elliptical.